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PRESENTATION ON TOWNS AND URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS. The present set of results pertain to data collected in the Census 2011 on Urbanization. Compilation of urban data is an essential prerequisite for dissemination of census results and for population projection.
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The present set of results pertain to data collected in the Census 2011 on Urbanization. • Compilation of urban data is an essential prerequisite for dissemination of census results and for population projection. • The term urbanisation, is most commonly used to denote the phenomenon of population distribution in the urban localities.
The urban area comprises two types of towns viz; Statutory towns and Census towns. (a) Statutory Towns : All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc. are known as statutory towns. (b) Census towns: All other places satisfying the following three criteria simultaneously are treated as Census Towns. i) A minimum population of 5,000; ii) At least 75 per cent of male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits; and iii) A density of population of at least 400 per sq. km. (1,000 per sq. mile)
Out Growths: It is a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration block and clearly identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location. While determining the outgrowth of a town, it has been ensured that it possesses the urban features in terms of infrastructure and amenities such as pucca roads, electricity, tap water, drainage system, educational institutions, post offices, medical facilities, banks etc. and physically contiguous with the core town of the UA.
Outgrowths included “fairly large well recognized railway colonies, university campuses, port areas, military establishments etc., which might have come up around a core city or a statutory town”.
The concept of `Outgrowth’ was introduced for the first time in Census 1971. Concept was introduced with a view to have a true measure of extent of urbanization because such areas were already urbanized and it was not realistic to treat them as rural just because they were lying outside the statutory limits of a town. The outgrowths formed an integrated urban area, these were treated as the part of Urban Agglomeration.
Urban Agglomeration(UA) An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths (OGs), or two or more physically contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns. Identification of Urban Agglomerations for 2011 Census The core town or atleastone of the constituent towns of an urban agglomeration should necessarily be a statutory town; and The total population of an Urban Agglomeration (i.e. all the constituents put together) should not be less than 20,000 as per the 2001 Census.
City • Towns with population of 100,000 and above are called cities. • Mega city • The concept of ‘Mega city’ is a recent phenomenon in the Urban Sociology and is defined in term of metropolitan city in the form of large size, problem of management of civic amenities and capacity to absorb the relatively high growth of population. • Cities with 10 millions and above population have been treated as Mega cities.
Size-class Hierarchy of Urban Areas : The population of cities and towns are presented in the following six size-classes: Size-classPopulation I 1 Lakh and above II 50,000 to 99,999 III 20,000 to 49,999 IV 10,000 to 19,999 V 5,000 to 9,999 VI Less than 5,000
177 154 112 113 94 85 31 32 11 25 26 10
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